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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
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  Mr. 
  J. 
  G. 
  Smith, 
  of 
  Lincoln, 
  Neb., 
  sends 
  a 
  sport 
  of 
  Erythronium 
  al- 
  

   bidum 
  which 
  has 
  4 
  sepals, 
  3 
  petals, 
  8 
  stamens, 
  and 
  a 
  4-lobed 
  stigma. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  E. 
  Claassen, 
  of 
  Cleveland, 
  Ohio, 
  writes 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  discovered 
  

   Nelumbo 
  lutea 
  growing 
  abundantly 
  at 
  one 
  locality 
  on 
  the 
  shore 
  of 
  Chip- 
  

   pewa 
  Lake, 
  Medina 
  county, 
  Ohio. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Eobert 
  H. 
  Lambobn, 
  in 
  the 
  Am, 
  Naturalist 
  (April), 
  discusses 
  

   cypress 
  "knees." 
  He 
  rejects 
  their 
  commonly 
  accepted 
  a^'rating 
  function 
  

   and 
  apparently 
  on 
  very 
  good 
  grounds, 
  considering 
  them 
  to 
  be 
  merely 
  so 
  

   many 
  " 
  trusses" 
  for 
  bracing 
  the 
  roots 
  in 
  holding 
  the 
  tree 
  firmly 
  in 
  yield- 
  

   ing 
  material. 
  

  

  Thk 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  A. 
  A. 
  A. 
  S. 
  at 
  Indianapolis 
  next 
  August 
  prom- 
  

   ises 
  to 
  be 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  meetings 
  in 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  Association, 
  

   Very 
  complete 
  arrangements 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  entertain- 
  

   ment, 
  and 
  the 
  rooms 
  secured 
  in 
  the 
  new 
  State 
  House 
  are 
  everything 
  that 
  

   could 
  be 
  desired. 
  There 
  will 
  be 
  a 
  great 
  gathering 
  of 
  botanists, 
  as 
  there 
  

   should 
  be, 
  with 
  a 
  botanist 
  as 
  president. 
  All 
  botanists 
  should 
  make 
  a 
  point 
  

   of 
  coming, 
  not 
  chiefly 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  botanical 
  crowd, 
  but 
  for 
  the 
  privilege 
  of 
  

   meeting 
  a 
  great 
  assemblage 
  of 
  botanists. 
  

  

  At 
  a 
  recent 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Society, 
  of 
  London, 
  Sir 
  John 
  

   Lubbock 
  gave 
  an 
  abstract 
  of 
  several 
  memoirs. 
  One 
  was 
  "On 
  the 
  shape 
  

   of 
  the 
  oak 
  leaf/' 
  in 
  which 
  an 
  attempt 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  explain 
  the 
  following 
  

   peculiarities, 
  viz.: 
  The 
  deep 
  rounded 
  sinuses, 
  the 
  lack 
  of 
  symmetry, 
  and 
  

   the 
  oblong 
  or 
  oblanceolate 
  outline. 
  The 
  author 
  thinks 
  that 
  the 
  sinuses 
  

   and 
  lack 
  of 
  symmetry 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  explained 
  by 
  the 
  curvature 
  of 
  the 
  leaf 
  in 
  

   the 
  bud, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  shortness 
  of 
  the 
  bud 
  in 
  comparison 
  with 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  leaf, 
  and 
  the 
  infolding 
  of 
  one 
  edge. 
  

  

  A 
  NEW 
  BIOLOGICAL 
  journal, 
  Zoe 
  byname, 
  comes 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  

   coast, 
  published 
  at 
  San 
  Francisco 
  by 
  the 
  Zoe 
  Publishing 
  Company. 
  The 
  

   snbscripiion 
  is 
  $2, 
  and 
  the 
  first 
  number 
  speaks 
  well 
  for 
  the 
  new 
  enter- 
  

   prise. 
  The 
  " 
  introduction" 
  speaks 
  of 
  the 
  purpose 
  being 
  to 
  furnish 
  a 
  suit- 
  

   able 
  medium 
  for 
  ''the 
  numerous, 
  often 
  unconnected 
  observations, 
  per- 
  

  

  taming 
  more 
  particularly 
  to 
  the 
  western 
  part 
  of 
  K 
  Am." 
  

   editors 
  appear, 
  but 
  the 
  botanv 
  of 
  this 
  first 
  number 
  is 
  as 
  foil 
  

  

  No 
  names 
  of 
  

   ows: 
  NomPn- 
  

  

  H. 
  IV. 
  Ua7 
  

  

  A 
  Cardon 
  forest, 
  by 
  T. 
  S. 
  Brandegee 
  ; 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  naturalized 
  plants 
  of 
  

   f 
  Calif. 
  I^ 
  by 
  S. 
  B. 
  Parish; 
  Dodecatheon 
  Meadia, 
  by 
  Katharine 
  Brarulegee; 
  

   Crossosoma, 
  by 
  F. 
  H. 
  Vaslit. 
  

  

  In 
  his 
  interesting 
  monograph 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Podaxis 
  (Jour. 
  Bat., 
  Feb, 
  

   a 
  d 
  Mar.) 
  Mr. 
  George 
  Massee 
  makes 
  the 
  following 
  statement 
  as 
  to 
  geo- 
  

   graphical 
  distribution 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  species 
  of 
  Podaxis, 
  seven 
  in 
  number, 
  are 
  

   not 
  abundant 
  anywhere, 
  and 
  being 
  very 
  conspicuous 
  and 
  readily 
  pre- 
  

   served, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  expected 
  that 
  many 
  novelties 
  remain 
  to 
  be 
  discov- 
  

   ered, 
  or 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  known 
  species 
  extended 
  to 
  any 
  marked 
  extent. 
  

   -Inere 
  is 
  a 
  primitive 
  quaintness 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  morphology, 
  which, 
  

   added 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  known 
  species 
  are 
  confined 
  to 
  geologically 
  old- 
  

   lashioned 
  places, 
  suggests 
  that 
  we 
  are 
  dealing 
  with 
  the 
  fragmentary 
  re- 
  

   naains 
  of 
  a 
  first 
  attempt 
  to 
  emerge 
  from 
  the 
  altogether 
  subterranean 
  

   nabits 
  of 
  the 
  pioneers 
  of 
  our 
  modern 
  group 
  of 
  Gastroniycetes. 
  The 
  

   ?r?o"!, 
  ranges 
  from 
  St. 
  Domingo, 
  California, 
  116° 
  W. 
  long., 
  to 
  Brisbane, 
  

   An 
  ^ 
  ^^^S; 
  and 
  from 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  35° 
  N. 
  lat 
  , 
  to 
  Melbourne, 
  37 
  8. 
  lat. 
  

   All 
  the 
  species 
  are 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  arid, 
  sandy 
  districts." 
  The 
  single 
  Amer- 
  

   ican 
  species, 
  is 
  a 
  new 
  one, 
  P. 
  Farlowii, 
  from 
  Arizona 
  and 
  New 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  

  